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Reggae, Rabbis, and PiratesTuesday, March 9, 2010 by Tamara Audi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once upon a time, the island nation of Jamaica boasted six synagogues and 2,000 Jews.Are Coffee and Dope Kosher for Passover?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Dan Rabinowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two curious angles on the holiday custom of refraining from certain grains and legumes (kitniyot).Snowmageddon
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Samuel G. Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The collapse of eruvim in winter storms has raised interest in a generally unmarked Jewish concept; an American artist sees the enclosures as drawings in space.
WordsMonday, March 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the potentially deleterious effects of the digital revolution is a flattening of consciousness—or so some fear. What sort of leveling takes place as we click relentlessly through the endless web? At what point do the words—thoughtful, meaningless, moving, inane—all bleed together? How to maintain any sense of the preciousness of language itself? Several texts recently come to light manage, each in its own way, to remind us that a whole, irreplaceable world can rest in a few furtive lines found who knows where. Phrases inked on pottery discovered at an excavation in Israel have been dated to the late-11th or early-10th...
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Damian Thompson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not really, but he did have a pronounced and little-discussed distaste for Jews.Handling Hamas
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Adam Ingram | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a British Labor MP, comparisons with the Irish Republican Army are tempting, but fallacious; Hamas is nowhere near ready to negotiate.Faith and the Justices
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Robert Barnes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Supreme Court now has a Catholic majority and more Jewish members than Protestants; in the making of appointments, has political philosophy become more important than religion?Powerbroker
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Tom Segev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ultra-Orthodox leader Menachem Porush ensured the insular rights of his community but failed to change the character of the Jewish state; in pursuing the opposite policy, his successors may be failing their community.
RabbahFriday, March 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Several weeks ago, a well-known Modern Orthodox rabbi in New York announced that a learned young woman serving in his synagogue as a teacher, preacher, pastoral counselor, and halakhic guide would henceforth be referred to as "Rabbah"—the feminine form of "Rav," or rabbi. In thus effectively ordaining Sara Hurwitz as the first female Orthodox rabbi, Avraham (Avi) Weiss set off a firestorm. The presiding body of ultra-Orthodox rabbis has ruled that Weiss himself must no longer be called Orthodox; the Rabbinical Council of America, an avowedly Modern Orthodox body, may expel him as well. No stranger to controversy, Weiss has bucked...
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The IAEA may finally be getting real about Tehran's nuclear-weapons program.
